Greyhound settles lawsuit over immigration sweeps on Washington buses 

Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice in Washington state of allowing U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) agents to board its buses to conduct warrantless immigration sweeps, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Monday in a press release.
The money will be used to provide restitution to those passengers who were detained, arrested, or deported after immigration agents boarded their bus at the Spokane Intermodal Center and for Ferguson's partial reimbursement of his office’s litigation costs. The amount of restitution that each individual will receive will depend on the number of claims and the severity of harms suffered due to Greyhound’s conduct.
The agreement filed in Spokane County Superior Court on the eve of trial requires Greyhound to enact a number of corporate reforms. Those include Greyhound corporate policy denying CBP agents permission to board its buses in Washington without warrants or reasonable suspicion and that the national bus line trains its drivers and other employees on how to communicate that policy to CBP agents.
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